Engineering for Forced Displacement Scenarios

3 units · Undergraduate

This course focuses on engineering and planning to meet the infrastructure needs of vulnerable, forcibly displaced persons, understand the drivers of displacement, appreciate the contextual realities, critically analyze existing technological solutions from a technical and ethical lens, and design interventions to improve access to infrastructure of these communities. Prereq: Enrollment in the Civil, Environmental, or City and Regional Planning majors; or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for CRPlan 5000. Cross-listed in CRPlan.